State Power and Ritual on high-ranking official post in the medieval Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 33-66
Author(s):  
Bo Kwang Kim

In 1966 Ezra Taft Benson, high-ranking official of the LDS church and former U.S. secretary of agriculture, delivered a speech on the campus of LDS-owned Brigham Young University in which he summarized his encounter with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in September 1959. Benson told BYU students that Khrushchev had bragged to him, in part, “[W]e’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” This essay examines the accuracy of Benson's recital of Khrushchev’s alleged comments and concludes that Benson misstated the incident and attributed statements to Khrushchev he did not make. It also speculates why Benson misrepresented, or misremembered, the facts of the encounter.


2021 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino

This chapter introduces the main protagonist of the book: Carlo Calà Duke of Diano, a jurist and high-ranking official in the viceregal administration. This chapter also sets the historical context of the story of the forgery by describing the main political, economic, social, and religious characteristics of the Kingdom of Naples in the seventeenth century. More specifically, this chapter explains the social, cultural, and intellectual advantages that a noble pedigree conferred to the Neapolitan non-aristocratic elites; explores the main sources of tension between the papacy and the Neapolitan viceroy; sheds light on the power dynamics between the Roman Inquisition and the local ecclesiastical leaders; and introduces the complexities of the liturgical and devotional life of early modern Catholics.


2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Gordy

In one of ICTY’s first prosecutions of a high-ranking official, Tihomir Blaškić’s 45-year sentence was heralded as an exemplar of decisive justice when it was handed down in 2000. With much of the conviction reversed and the sentence reversed on appeal three years later, the case looked less secure. Much of the conviction and appeal turned on issues of command responsibility, where the ICTY’s jurisprudence set a precedent going beyond that established by post-World War II jurisprudence. While this constituted an advance in law and a step toward demonstrating political responsibility, public perception of the trial treated it as a triumph for the accused.


Significance Fort will be the eighth high-ranking official to resign since Macron took office in 2017. This will raise further doubts over the credibility of Macron’s presidency and reform agenda. Impacts As the euro-area’s second-largest economy, France threatens euro-area growth prospects. Failure to control France’s budget deficit will result in conflict with Brussels. Such economic concerns will reduce Macron’s ability to drive EU political and economic reforms.


2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sanger

AbstractIn Khurts Bat, the English High Court held that Mr Bat, a Mongolian State official charged with committing municipal crimes on German territory, was not immune from the jurisdiction of German courts and could therefore be extradited to Germany. This article examines the three theories of immunity put forward in that case: (1) special missions immunity, (2) high-ranking official immunity, and (3) State immunity. It focuses on the question of whether State officials charged with municipal crimes may plead immunity ratione materiae from the criminal jurisdiction of a foreign State by examining key examples of State practice.


Author(s):  
Antonio M. Poveda Navarro

La reciente identificación de un fragmento escultórico con la representación de un toro preparado ornamentalmente para su sacrificio, que se encontraba depositado entre los fondos del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, ha permitido relacionar la pieza con el conocido relieve de M. Agrippa en acción de sacrificar, de esta forma se puede completar el relieve en su parte derecfia según se le contemple frontalmente. A partir de este nuevo dato se revisa la visión interpretativa de la obra, que encuentra atiora la verificación de que se trata de un sacrificio de los típicos destinados al culto imperial romano, donde frecuentemente aparece una alta figura del estado o de la familia del emperador, que se encarga de sacrificar una víctima animal muy simbólica y recurrente, que generalmente, como en este caso, es un toro. Además, se plantea la posibilidad de que el relieve formase parte del ara Providentiae de Augusto, altar monumental de Mérida conocido a través de su aparición en el reverso de algunas emisiones monetales de Tiberio.The recent Identification of a piece of a sculpture with the representation of an ornamentally prepared bull for its sacrifice, which was among the collection of the National Museum of Román Art has made possible to relate the piece with the famous M. Agripa's relief in a sacrificing position, in this way we can complete the relief in its right part if we look at it directiy. Taken this, the interpretative visión of the work of art is revised, thus obtaining verification that it is a typical sacrifice destined to the Román imperial cult, where very frequently we find either a high ranking official or someone belonging to the emperor's family, who is in charge of offering up the animal victim, a highiy symbolic and recurring sacrifice, which, like in the present case generally involves the ritual killing of a a bull.


2020 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Vita Diemantaitė

After the reforms that took place in 1566 the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Union of Lublin began its new phase of life in 1569. During this phase The Chancellery of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania played an essential role. At the time the institution was comprised of Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and its most important employees – clerks – people of average nobility that had a chance to show their knowledge working at a chancellery. Leon Sapiega was one of such people. While examining the works of other historians we can notice that L. Sapiega has a variety of biographies, but not including the clerical aspect, they can be considered to be a collection of chronological presentation of facts and not a comprehensive biography of a high-ranking official. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to answer the question of how L. Sapiega as a person influenced the development of the Chancery of the GDL. Institutions are usually represented by leaders and each leader leaves a footprint in the institution’s history. L. Sapiega was not an exeption as his office had undergone several stages of development.


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